| Show TO MARK INGALLS GRAVE his friends seek for a stone such as he described the grave of the late john J ingalls at mt vernon cemetery will be marked by a native bowlder boulder deposited in kansas soil in the glacial period according to an atchi on kan dis patch in the st louis globe democrat this will be done in obedience to a letter written in the senate chamber at washington dec 10 1890 to mrs ingalls in atchison Atch lson the letter fol foi lows the cold wave has passed off and the morning lb au like april the world is so lovely at its best this life Is so delightful that I 1 dread the thought of leaving it I 1 have seen and expert encee so bittle of what may be seen seem and known that it seems like closing a volume of which I 1 have only glanced at the title page what an uncivil host life is to invite us to an entertainment which we are compelled to attend whether we like it or not and then to unceremoniously take us by the arm and bow us out into the night stormy and dismal to go stumbling about without 0 so o ranch as a lantern to show us the way to another town t our ground in the cemetery should have a monument I 1 hate these obel asks urns and stone cottages and y should prefer a great natural rock o 0 one of the red boulders bowl ders known as th the lost rocks of the prairie porphyry from the north brought down in b glacial times with a email small surface aa smoothed down just large enough to make a tablet in which should be in seated the bronze letters of our name ingalls and nothing else i A stone such as described Is now f being sought |
